Cognitive testing:

Advanced testing, interpretation and therapeutics :

Cognitive impairment can be caused by a multitude of factors, and often a combination of many.  With this advanced testing software, Dr. Karin can evaluate your individual cognitive performance combined with subjective assessments to establish a personalized treatment protocol for you.  Discerning between thyroid dysfunction, attention deficit, mood disorders, long-haul infectious process, stress, brain injury, microbiome imbalance and the wide arrays of dementia diagnoses is a confusing and arduous journey.  These tasks and tests, along with your work with Dr. Karin, will help clarify your own concerns and strategically address your risk factors and set goals for healing.  

a little more about creyos:

The Creyos (formerly Cambridge Brain Sciences) tasks were developed in the laboratory of Dr.
Adrian Owen, former Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging
(owenlab.org), over the course of his 30+ year career. The tasks assess aspects of cognition including
reasoning, memory, attention and verbal ability. Over 300 scientific studies have been run to date
using the Creyos tasks, yielding numerous publications in leading academic journals.

The tasks have been validated in studies of patients, brain imaging studies of healthy volunteers, and
in several large-scale public studies involving tens of thousands of volunteers. They have proven to be
efficient and sensitive measures of baseline cognitive capacity. For example, in one study, the results
of the 30-minute Creyos battery were comparable to those of a standard 2-3 hour (paper and pencil)
neuropsychological battery (WAIS-R) (Levine et al., 2013). In another recent study of mental capacity in
the elderly, the Creyos battery outperformed a standard task of cognitive abilities (the MoCA) (Brenkel
et al., 2017). Finally, performance on the Creyos battery is highly predictive of reasoning and problem
solving abilities, as indexed by “classic” tasks such as Raven’s Matrices and the Cattell Culture Fair task
(Hampshire et al., 2012).